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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: set user ID..
Message-ID: <26909@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 15 Jun 91 03:19:41 GMT
References: <1991Jun14.124606.25979@cm.cf.ac.uk>
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I guess everyone writes one of these sooner or later.  I confess I did one
once (merely as an exercise, of course. (-: ).  I don't think it qualifies
as a hack, though.  It's neither original nor clever.  It doesn't even
compromise system security unless someone with superuser privilege is
stupid enough to trip over it.  It's certainly unethical and probably
illegal.

At best, it's a prank.  At worst, it could get you fired and/or jailed.  I
give it 2 out of 10.  A better disguise might get you a 3, but that's
about all it's worth.

Try again?

-- 
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